I have done a lot of things people would be embarrassed to do in public, things that should illicit a response (sometimes something physical) more than someone simply being told something about myself; things with people I personally know, and strangers old, young, religious, non-religious, gay, straight, attack helicopter and inbetween. You want to talk about taboo, embarrassing, just plain wrong thing's I've done I will have you beat trust me, you ask if I've had experience, oh yes, I've had more experience than most people should.

I know we want to be special, we want to play the victim, but trust me, nobody cares enough to take time out of their day to give us a speech about our personal problems. If we go out and intentionally seek it you can eventually find someone who has an opinion or will acknowledge it, but I guarantee you if you go outside your house right now and scream "I'm gay" the only thing your neighbors will say to you is to stop shouting, because they truly do not care.

And don't think I don't have any empathy, I'm just realistic and experienced, so many people think they're persecuted or attacked because they put themselves out there on a anonymous online forum where people have opinions and they let them know what they are, the sole purpose is to share your opinion; and then they think everyone's loud voices transfer to real life.

You would be amazed to have the experiences I have, and to realize how much people (in real life, not online) do not care about others. They don't care about light touching, they don't care about how long you slept last night, they don't care about what you eat or if you work out, they don't care about what sports you play or if you went to college, they are so busy in their own lives working their own shit out that the problems in your life are below the bottom of their list. The only time people will put on a face and care is when forcefully presented with it, if you forcefully touch them, force them to hear how long you slept, force them to listen about what you eat, force them to ask what sports team you like, force them to respond to you saying your gay, and wait for a response, then they will do one just to break the 'awkward silence'. And I'm ready for the downvotes of people who think they are better than what I'm talking about, but prove it right? Go outside and look, go to work/school and don't say hi or initiate conversation with anyone and see how many people ask about your sexual orientation, or even ask you anything more than "how are you?"; because unless they are expecting something from you literally nobody is going to go out of their way to look for and react to something you're dealing with in your life.